SMART PEOPLE

HIPSTER POT SIBLING COMEDY

By ANDREA MURRAY

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Y'know that grumpy but incredibly intelligent professor you had in college? Well, this movie is about his very pathetic and unfulfilling life. Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) is a crotchety and condescending widower, who has unfortunately rubbed off on his daughter, Vanessa (Ellen Page). Enter his fun-loving, freeloading, adoptive brother Chuck (Thomas Haden Church) to fix his family life. Lawrence attempts dating his doctor/former student, Janet (Sarah Jessica Parker), but his arrogance repeatedly gets in the way. Chuck sets out to make himself useful by loosening up straight-laced Vanessa via getting her to smoke pot and chug a pitcher of PBR. "What's it like to be stupid?" Vanessa asks some classy broads in her drunken stupor. This gem sums up this movie's spectacular irony. A very awkward uncle-niece relationship develops because, as smart as Vanessa is, she doesn't understand that kissing your uncle is incest.

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RATED | R

RELEASE DATE | 8.12.08

PRICE | $19.99